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Dear Eve…

05 Apr

Just going through my memos, I came across this and I thought to share it. It was sent to me by someone special and it’s basically a letter to Eve the first woman on earth (believe it or not). Read on;

Dear Eve,

I want to start this letter by thanking you for eating that so-called apple, I hope they were tasty and you enjoyed

every churn of it! (I have always wondered). I hear so many people attributing their failures in life to you eating

that apple. I am thanking you because you have made it easier for people to justify why they are not doing well

in life. You have taken the blame away from the man in the mirror!  ”If only Eve didn’t eat those apple I wouldn’t

be suffering like this”; “oh that woman! She’s the reason for…”, I hear them say. Luckily, not everyone has the

time to justify why they are failing, instead they actively seek ways  to improve themselves to make sure they

are the best they can be. I am sure you are relieved to hear that because it’s not like you can go back in time

and not eat the apple! Thank you for making me a stronger person.

Your long-lost daughter,
Pat

 
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Be The Change You Want To See !

08 Mar

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Africa needs innovative leaders. There are too much business oriented, one minded, unpatriotic, and old expired brains out there yearning to be presidents, ministers, senators etc. If Africa is to wake up from its long sleep of poverty and un-recognition, then it needs innovative and radical leaders in every sectors and industry.

Nonetheless, our problem is not the leaders because I personally believe that every one is a leader in his or her own little right. As the first-born child in my family, I am a born leader to 2 other strong-headed siblings. In schools, we become automatic leaders when we are a year above and so on. So whether we like it or not, we are already leaders just in different capacity. But as I was saying, we ought to stop looking outwards for some magic to happen and start looking inwards for the magic to start happening.

I still wonder why people do exactly the same thing as their ancestors and expect a different result. Wake up people, wake up because it doesn’t work that way anymore. Same way we don’t send letters anymore thanks to Facebook, emails, twitter etc. is the same way sitting at home from a day-to-day or 9 – 5 job with hands folded in will never make you successful (depending on what you term success).

Stop telling me you want change when you are far from change yourself. Don’t you think it’s funny how people want change, they cry for change, they seek change, they hope for change, they beg for change, they pray for change and for my Christian folks, they’ll speak in tongues for change yet they possess a porous,stagnant and static attitude themselves.

If you and I can’t be change ourselves, then who do we expect to change? political leaders? The economy ? The banking system ? Our parents? Our teachers? Our pastors ? Our friends? Exactly who should start this change thing?

It is about time we as individuals start exhibiting an attitude of change else we’ll be stuck in this everlasting traffic of ‘waiting for a change’

 
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Posted by on March 8, 2012 in Uncategorized

 

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You Think You Got it Bad !?

01 Dec

There is Life; there is Hope

Times and times without number have I come across self disrupted, downward, discouraged, dismayed, downcast-ed  dispirited, daunted, pessimistic, glum, sulky, gloomy and bummed out individuals. WOW! It irritates the living day light out of me living only the night-light. You know why? You really want to know why? It’s because brothers and sisters! you are not the first! For all I care there is almost 7 billion humans presently leaving in this world and this is excluding the ones chilling six feet below. Do you really think your case is the worse; do you really think you are the first one to have lost a job; do u really think you are the ugliest person on earth; do you really think you are the dumbest individual; you must be thinking you are the first one to have failed a course or exam or module or whatever; do you really think you are the poorest (referring to myself); are you the first one to have been born in an undeveloped country in other words slum in other words ghetto in other words bush, people have been dying (may their soul rest in peace) but trust me you are not the first person to have lost a close one (just lost one myself); you are not the first and trust me wont be the last.

I don’t know about you but when I tasted beer and wine some time ago, those things tasted nasty (agree or disagree) but I get people telling me it taste good and they somehow manage to down the drink; Coffee, with no sugar; it doesn’t taste good either even with sugar but again I have mates who haven’t started their day if they haven’t taken a cup of coffee, we take grape fruits I am sure too. These my friends is life. It’s sometimes bitter and don’t taste so good but somehow we have to gulp it down.

In the sport of athletics precisely huddling, athletes don’t run around the huddles, they have to go over them no matter how high or low. Same applies to life, the obstacles are placed there for us to go over them, if not then why live? I for one is part of the bunch of people who sometimes think that life sucks, life is unfair, life is a b***h, life is cruel, life is bla bla bla. Truth of the matter is nobody has had it all good, fun, smooth and easy all the way. I recently read an article on CNN and it pointed out how chief executives of big companies happen to experience a dozen of different emotions in a day across their work and home some which are fear, disappointment, loneliness, anger, frustration, confusion and so on. Even the president of the United state of America isn’t having it all sweet and don’t let me get started on celebrities.

Dear friends, for some reasons we have been placed not in Mars or Jupiter but on Earth for a particular reason. These obstacles are just distractions; its alright to fall but rise again, its alright to cry but wipe out your tears and smile again, its alright to fail but rewrite and take note of your mistakes, its alright to miss but don’t forget to re-target and finally its alright to hit rock bottom because except u want to remain there, u can only go upward.

If you think you’ve got it bad then please see the video link below

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2QZM7azGoA&feature=player_embedded

 
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Posted by on December 1, 2011 in Uncategorized

 

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How Far You !

23 Nov

Reflection

21 years ago, in d cool of the evening, a young beautiful woman in a distant land of Abuja gave birth to a

bouncing (not so sure about d ‘bouncing’) baby boy who would in turn be writing this blog right now. That’s me

(lol). So Yes, Yay, hurray, ha, ha-ha, yippee, yupee etc it’s my day today and as everyone assumes, it should

be marked but guess wot I’ll be doing; Reflecting.Yes reflecting on my journey up until this point.

Would have love to go have a meal, party with friends, have a nice time with my Mrs,  chat with my mates and

all worth not but I choose to hold a meeting with my myself. My head, heart, legs, hands, heart, and all my

body.

What would I be saying at my meeting with myself? Reflecting.

What will I be doing at my meeting with myself? Reflecting.

What would be thinking at my meeting with myself? Reflecting.

Below is a pre-meeting briefing and case study

- At 31, Bill gates became a billionaire, youngest person to have done so

- At 25, Steve jobs was worth over $100 million

- At 33, Benjamin Carson had become youngest major division director, as Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at John Hopkins Hospital

- Co-founder and former Chief Executive Officer of the popular video sharing websiteYouTube in June 2006 at 29 years old was voted 28th on Business 2.0′s ”50 People Who Matter Now” list. In October 2006 he and Steve Chen sold YouTube for $1.65 billion to Google.

- Matt Mullenweg  is the founding developer of the popular open-source blogging software WordPress (that I’m using now); After quitting his job at CNET, he devoted the majority of his time to developing a number of open source projects and is a frequent speaker at conferences, such as Canada’s Northern Voice and the WordCamp events organized around WordPress software. At 23, he was worth $40million

-Alex Tew, a student from Cricklade in Wiltshire, England, conceived The Million Dollar Homepage in August 2005 when he was 21 years old. He was about to begin a three-year Business Management course at the University of Nottingham, and was concerned that he would be left with a student loan that could take years to repay. As a money-raising idea, Tew decided to sell a million pixels on a website for $1 each; purchasers would add their own image, logo or advertisement, and have the option of including a hyperlink to their website. Pixels were sold for US dollars rather than UK pounds; the US has a larger online population than the UK, and Tew believed more people would relate to the concept if the pixels were sold in US currency. Tew’s setup costs were €50, which paid for the registration of the domain name and a basic web-hosting package. The website went live on 26 August 2005 and made him a millionaire

- Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg as we all know is worth $17.5billion at age 27 and listed on Forbes as one of America’s richest

- Lionel Andrés “Leo” Messi  is an Argentine footballer who plays for FC Barcelona and captains the Argentina national team, mainly as a striker. Messi received several Ballon d’Or and FIFA World Player of the Year nominations by the age of 21, and won in 2009 and 2010. Messi has won five La Liga titles, three Champions League titles, became only the third player (after Gerd Müller and Jean-Pierre Papin) to top-score in three successive European Champion Clubs’ Cup campaigns. However, Messi is the first one to win the Champions League top scorer titles for three consecutive years after Champions League changed its format in 1992 and he is just 24.

David & Goliath

- At age 17, biblical David brought down gigantic Goliath and became king of Israel

- Even Jesus Christ at age 33 died for the whole world (believe it or not) and attained a state that no man can ever attain.

Below is the minutes from the meeting

  • No Apologies for absentees as nobody was absent (As always)
  • Welcome speech by ‘Mr Brain’ chairman of the meeting (meditation)
  • Purpose of meeting is identified
  • Case study review
  • Reflection mode switch on (Forever)
  • Reflection mode switch off  (Never)

Then I turn to myself to ask the members of myself

How far have we gone?

Where are we coming from?

Where are we heading to?

Where are we now?

The World is waiting...

“It’s NOT about the YEARS in the LIFE but the LIFE in the YEARS”

-G1-

 
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Posted by on November 23, 2011 in Uncategorized

 

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Lets Start Doing!

20 Jul

If Only I had that!

Sometimes I sit back to observe, think and meditate on the state and affairs of this world and to be honest I am really baffled and astonished at how bastardized this place called earth is. On Forbes, I just read an article on an Abu Dhabi Oil Sheikh who at he’s will and might have just inscribed he’s name on an island fully owned and funded by the sheikh. On this island, it is reported theres a resort, a stable for horses and a golf course. Further down as u read along (please read full article on the link provided below), you’ll see where it says he owns 200 cars with seven Mercedes SELs painted in the colour of the rainbow. He must be living the life as we all say right but then contrast that to the east African drought. Somali recently said to have been going through famine. Children dying for lack of food not three square meals we take for granted but just one in a day. We’re not talking of education or shelter or clothes or those basic amenities. I’m speaking of FOOD.

Equatorial guinea happens to be one of the smallest  country in Africa but its the third largest producer of oil in the continent. It has one of the highest per capita incomes in the world but guess what, over 70% of its population leave in extreme poverty. Why? Because the ‘country is under a despotic government notorious for its flagrant disregard for human rights, oppression of journalists and extreme levels of corruption. It is said that the bulk of the country’s wealth is sourced primarily from its oil revenues generated by multinational oil companies like Exxon Mobil, but is unevenly distributed among the President, his family and close associates. The rest of the population suffers in silence’ Same as the sheikhs who believes the oil belongs to the family of the king (or however they organize their government) and not the people.

Who owns crude oil, who makes crude oil, who put the oil in the ground for people to drill out. Who allocates this natural resources. I come from a country where an oil block is used as gift to a single man. Then they come back to claim they give away millions in Aid to this poor African countries. Sometimes, I wonder when there will be justice and every man can leave happy with their family irrespective of where he or she resides.

Imagine the innocent people of Libya, Syria, Egypt, Ivory Coast, Pakistan, Japan, portugal, Greece, Somali, Kenya and so on. Even though and I do understand we don’t have as much millions or billions to give out, lets empathize with this people and do the little we can to help out.

Links: http://blogs.forbes.com/christopherhelman/2011/07/20/abu-dhabi-oil-sheikh-writes-his-name-in-the-sand-two-miles-wide/

http://blogs.forbes.com/mfonobongnsehe/2011/07/07/an-african-dictators-son-and-his-very-lavish-toys/

 
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Spectators, Referees, Players & Coach

29 Jun

Spectators, Referees, Players and Coach

It’s the end of another football season and here we are, soccer diehard fans sitting and constantly updating ourselves on the transfer window in respect to our so-called teams. Teams that do not give a damn about how it hurts when they miss that obvious chance at goal; one my grandmother will easily push into the net. One that still hurts me till now was the world cup of last year. England as we all know after putting their mouths in before their legs were shamed out of the tournament, thanks to the German machines. But after disgracefully crashing out, I read in weekend papers that these players had jetted off with their WAGs as they call them to islands and resorts having the most exciting time of their lives. Then I thought back to those shouts, heart ache, head ache, bum ache and sometimes starvation that I and my uncle went through in supporting this overgrown men running around in shorts and sometimes even taking shirts off pursuing some round leather thing  like my little 3 year old  cousins. I thought of the lavish and pampered treatment giving to these old men by the government including their WAGs. The attention, the hype, the cheering, the arguments, some men beat up their wife because she interrupted their game [WOW!]. It was after all these deep thoughts and debates within myself I stopped been a diehard football fan notwithstanding, I’m a true fan of the red devils [LOL].

But this is not what this post is about; I save that for later so watch out. This post is about us the so-called supporters who supports from the comfort of our cushion at home. Let me burst your bubble, you are no real supporter. Go check out the real hardcore ones in the stadiums under sunshine, rainfall and snow. My heart goes out to them. So if you want to become a real supporter, go inquire how much it cost for a season ticket, buy it and come tell me you’ve upgraded to a real supporter. Back to us cushion supporters, I would like to engage you in a roller coaster of deep thoughts.

I personally sometimes admire soccer because it sort of coincides with Life in itself; The practice, the hard work, the devotion, the commitment, the persistence, the strategy, the planning, the injuries, then the results, the joy, the anger, the frustration, the laughter, the stagnancy and the pride. Imagine your life was like the old Trafford stadium. What role do you think you’ll play now? ; The spectator cheering and spurring others? , The Referee running from box to box without touching the ball? , The defenders stopping opponents from scoring? , The midfielders controlling the tempo of the game and supplying the strikers? , The strikers trying at every chance to score goals? , or The coach who have done he’s/her bit and is now controlling the whole team?.

I once read a quote in a bulletin and that quote has ever remained with me hence this post. It quoted “referees don’t score goals “and “Spectators are in the ministry of cheering and booing”.  I definitely don’t want to be a spectator neither a referee. I want to be in the game, precisely to be the striker dribbling, creating and scoring ‘goals’ like the little Argentinean wonder, Lionel Messi then move on to be  the ‘Special One’.

 
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Posted by on June 29, 2011 in Uncategorized

 

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What Counts!

26 Jun

What really does count?

How do you measure your success?

How do you quantify your happiness?

Is it the amount of £/$ you have?

Or is it the Size of house you leave in?

Is it your degree from a top university?

Or is it your top grade in a tough discipline

Is it your sophisticated smart phone?

Or is it your nice cool ride?

Is it your designer clothes and shoes?

Or is it your beautiful face?

Is it the number of boys you have on your phone list ?

Or is it the number of parties you’ve gone to in your life?

Is it your clean nice well-groomed hair?

Or is it your hmm great perfume?

Is it your been born with a “silver spoon”?

Or is it your big business?

I could go on and on because different individuals measure success in different ways but ask yourself this simple question WHAT COUNTS?

After listening to a speech by Chip Conley on Measuring what makes Life Worthwhile, I  decided to sit back and rethink my pursuit in life. A Few questions popped  in my head  like ‘what are my really chasing after?’, What is it for?, To whose benefit is it?, Is it worth the stress or pursuit?, Are there better options and What are my alternatives. Perhaps, I have answers to some of this question but I urge you to ask yourself the same questions. Is it All about getting the best degree and masters and PhD and blah blah blah, buying the latest blackberry and having the most bb contacts, having so many ex girlfriends you begin to lose count, be married to the best guy in the world, wearing the latest, expensive and most known designer wears etc.

What really do count? Happiness I guess is why we toil in day and night, in winter and summer, in autumn and spring, dry and wet, in sickness and in health, in richer or poorer and till death do us path [lol]. But what we fail to realise is it’s all vanity upon vanity. It’s like chasing the wind just like the rich man in ecclesiastics described. If you can answer the simple question WHAT COUNTS honestly, then happiness is not too far from your reach. This days, we waste time and energy pursuing irrelevant materials that brings sadness instead of the supposed happiness.

Bertolt Brecht said in a quote “Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.” So my conclusion is if we can distinguish what really counts, then we’re not too far from been happy.
 
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Posted by on June 26, 2011 in Uncategorized

 

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